Humoresque (film)

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This article is about the 1946 film. For the musical genre, see Humoresque.

Humoresque
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Directed by	Jean Negulesco
Produced by	Jerry Wald Jack L. Warner (executive producer)
Written by	Clifford Odets Zachary Gold Fannie Hurst (novel)
Starring	Joan Crawford John Garfield Oscar Levant J. Carrol Naish Ruth Nelson
Music by	Franz Waxman Antonín Dvořák Richard Wagner
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Editing by	Rudi Fehr
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	25 December 1946
Running time	125 min
Country	USA
Language	English
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Humoresque is a 1946 film melodrama made by Warner Bros.. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Jerry Wald with Jack L. Warner as executive producer. The screenplay was by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold from the novel by Fannie Hurst. Franz Waxman orchestrated and conducted the music score which features music by Antonín Dvořák and Richard Wagner. Other musical pieces include Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, Georges Bizet's Carmen, Edouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole Op.21. Isaac Stern served as musical advisor. The cinematography was by Ernest Haller and the costume design by Adrian and Bernard Newman.

The film stars Joan Crawford and John Garfield, and co-starred Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Ruth Nelson and Craig Stevens.

The film is a remake of the 1920 silent film Humoresque, directed by Frank Borzage. This is Crawford's first film after her Oscar-winning role in Mildred Pierce, and the third for Warner Bros. (after being dropped by M-G-M).

Robert Blake plays star-violinist Paul Boray (Garfield) as a young boy.

Humoresque was parodied on the television show SCTV in 1981. The Joan Crawford role was played by Catherine O'Hara as Crawford, while the John Garfield role was played by violin virtuoso Eugene Fodor.^[1]

The film is also said to have inspired the beach sequence in the video of Madonna's "The Power of Goodbye", directed by Matthew Rolston.